"This book offers a comprehensive overview of social security in the Balkan states. Social security is presented from a broad perspective as a mechanism that addresses human needs, provides protection against social risks, reduces social tensions and secures peace. Various sectors of social...

Part 1. Social security in the Republic of North Macedonia -- The social security policy of the Republic of North Macedonia: reform process, opportunities and perspectives / Katerina Veljanovska Blazhevska -- Health, pensions and disability insurance in the Republic of North Macedonia / Afet...

Building alternatives beyond capital / Julio C. Gambina and Gabriela Roffinelli -- The social and solidarity economy in Latin America / Henry Veltmeyer -- New co-operativism in Latin America : implications for Cuba / Marcelo Vieta -- The new guidelines : economic changes and its political and...

Social welfare responses in a neoliberal era : adaptive responses, sustained need, and exacerbated hardships / Cory Blad and Mia Arp Fallov -- Crisis neoliberalism and the social welfare state : structural challenges and policy responses / Ricardo A. Dello Buono -- Searching for saviors :...